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| author | Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> | 2007-12-17 00:48:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2007-12-17 17:29:49 +0000 |
| commit | a32521b767c799b2530a390662347774809e7a67 (patch) | |
| tree | 904ecec5e6786e44e9c291bb3717d0a305609e2f /pod/perl5100delta.pod | |
| parent | 97dc7d3e75fba5b997341633941459733ca2a7a1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-a32521b767c799b2530a390662347774809e7a67.tar.gz | |
Document that $^V is no longer a v-string
From: "Jan Dubois" <jand@activestate.com>
Message-ID: <007501c840cc$99b940e0$cd2bc2a0$@com>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32631
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perl5100delta.pod')
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diff --git a/pod/perl5100delta.pod b/pod/perl5100delta.pod index cf90dc939c..a1afa50f39 100644 --- a/pod/perl5100delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5100delta.pod @@ -543,6 +543,14 @@ Previously, F<.pmc> files were loaded only if more recent than the matching F<.pm> file. Starting with 5.9.4, they'll be always loaded if they exist. +=head2 $^V is now a C<version> object instead of a v-string + +$^V can still be used with the C<%vd> format in printf, but any +character-level operations will now access the string representation +of the C<version> object and not the ordinals of a v-string. +Expressions like C<< substr($^V, 0, 2) >> or C<< split //, $^V >> +no longer work and must be rewritten. + =head2 @- and @+ in patterns The special arrays C<@-> and C<@+> are no longer interpolated in regular |